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Cristiano Feldens Schwertner
Universidade Federal de São Paulo,
Brazil

     I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil . My prymary research interests are the systematics, biogeography and evolution of the Pentatomoidea, based on different character systems (comparative morphology of adults and immatures, bionomics, host plants, etc.). I also have interest in the study of the stink bug/host plant interactions and its consequences on natural and modified environments.

     I have a B.S. in Zoology (1998) and a B.Ed. in Biological Sciences (1998) at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1998); an MS in Plant Production at Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense (2001), and a PhD in Animal Biology at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2005).

 

Contact Information:
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas
Universidade Federal de São Paulo - Campus Diadema
Rua Artur Riedel 275, Eldorado
CEP 09972-270 Diadema, SP,
BRASIL

Telephone: +55 11 3319-3300
FAX: +55 11 4043-6428

schwertner@unifesp.br

http://www.unifesp.br/home_diadema/

Current Projects:

1)     Phylogeny, revision and classification of Nezarini, and included genera: Aethemenes, Acrosternum, Chinavia, Nezara, Neoacrosternum, et. (with Augusto Ferrari and Jocélia Grazia).

2)     Phylogeny, revision and classification of Chlorocoris-group (with Caroline Greve, Jocélia Grazia and David Rider).

3)     Phylogeny, revision and classification of Euschistus subgenus Mitripus (with Anne Cohen and Jocélia Grazia).

4)     Phylogeny of the Scaptocorini (Cydnidae: Cephalocteinae) (with Jocélia Grazia and Eduardo José Ely e Silva).

5)     Revision of the genus Thoreyella Spinola (with Jocélia Grazia and Jorge Bernardes).

6)     Redescription, biology and ecological interactions of Eurystethus microlobatus Ruckes (with Tadeu Guerra and Jocélia Grazia).

7)  Biology of stink bugs on wild and cultivated host-plants (with Gilberto S. Albuquerque and Viviana C. Matesco).

8)     Morphology of immatures of Pentatominae (with Brenda Fursternau, Jocélia Grazia and Viviana C. Matesco).

9) Catalog of the Pentatomidae of Brazil (with Jocélia Grazia).

10) Diversity and biogeography of the Pentatomoidea of the Pampa Biome (with Augusto Ferrari, Felipe Simões, Milton Mendonça and Jocélia Grazia).
 

Publications:

Grazia, J., J. A. M. Fernandes, and C. F. Schwertner. 1998. Luridocimex, um novo gênero de Pentatomini (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) do Brasil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 84: 153-160.

Grazia, J., J. A. M. Fernandes, and C. F. Schwertner. 1999. Stysiana, a new genus and four new species of Pentatomini (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) of the Neotropical region. Acta Societatis Zoologica Bohemica 63: 71-83.

Schwertner, C. F. 2001. Efeito de plantas hospedeiras conhecidas ou em potencial sobre características morfológicas e ecológicas de Acrosternum impicticorne (Stål) e A. ubicum Rolston (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae).  M.S. thesis, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense. 80 pp.

Schwertner, C. F., G. S. Albuquerque, and J. Grazia. 2002. Descrição dos estágios imaturos de Acrosternum (Chinavia) ubicum Rolston (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) e efeito do alimento no tamanho e coloração das ninfas. Neotropical Entomology 31(4): 571-579.

Schwertner, C. F. and J. Grazia. 2002. Nomenclator entomologicus: Acrosternum spp. em soja no Brasil. Informativo da Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil 27: 3.

Schwertner, C. F., J. Grazia, and J. A. M. Fernandes. 2002. Revisão do gênero Mecocephala Dallas, 1851 (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 46(2): 169-184.

Grazia, J., C. F. Schwertner, and E. J. E. E. Silva. 2004. Arranjos taxonômicos e nomenclaturais em Scaptocorini (Hemiptera, Cydnidae, Cephalocteinae). Neotropical Entomology 33(4): 511-512.

Schwertner, C. F. 2005. Filogenia e classificação do grupo Nezara Amyot & Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae). PhD dissertation, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. 253pp.

Grazia, J., C. F. Schwertner, and A. Ferrari. 2006. Description of five new species of Chinavia Orian (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae) from western and northwestern South America. In: Rabitsch W. (ed.): Hug the bug – For love of true bugs. Festschrift zum 70 Geburtstag von Ernst Heiss. Denisia 19: 423-434. 

Matesco, V. C., C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2006. Descrição dos estágio imaturos de Chinavia erythrocnemis (Berg) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae). Neotropical Entomology 35(4): 483-488.

Schwertner, C. F. and J. Grazia. 2006. Descrição de seis novas espécies de Chinavia (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae) da América do Sul. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 97(2): 237-348.

Matesco, V. C., C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2007. Descriçno dos estágios imaturos e biologia de Chinavia pengue (Rolston) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 51(1): 93-100.

Schwertner, C. F. and J. Grazia. 2007. O gLnero Chinavia Orian (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae) no Brasil, com chave pictórica para os adultos. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 51(4): 416-435.

Grazia, J. and C. F. Schwertner. 2008. Review of Parachinavia Roche (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae, Pentatominae). Pp. 159-169, in: Grozeva, S. and N. Simov (eds.), Advances in Heteroptera Research. Festschrift in Honour of 80th Anniversary of Michail Josifov. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 419 pp.

Grazia, J. and C. F. Schwertner. 2008. Pentatomidae e Cyrtocoridae. Pp. 223-234, in: Claps, L. E., G. Debandi, and S. Roig-JuZent (eds.), Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos, vol. 2.

Grazia, J., C. F. Schwertner, and C. Greve. 2008. Two new species of the genus Chloropepla (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae) from Brazil. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48(2): 533-542. [PDF]

Matesco, V. C., C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2008. Immature stages of Chinavia musiva (Berg, 1878): A unique pattern in the morphology of Chinavia Orian, 1965 (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae). Journal of Natural History 42: 1749-1763.

Matesco, V. C., B. B. R. J. Fürstenau, J. L. C. Bernardes, C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2009. Morphological features of the eggs of Pentatomidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Zootaxa 1984: 1-30.

Bernardes, J. L., C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2009. Cladistic analysis of Thoreyella and related genera (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae: Procleticini). Zootaxa 2310:1-23.

Matesco, V. C., C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2009. Morphology of the immatures and biology of Chinavia longicorialis (Breddin) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Neotropical Entomology 38(1): 74-82.

Mendonça, M. de S., C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2009. Diversity of Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) in riparian forests of southern Brazil: Taller forests, more bugs. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 53(1): 121-127.

Bunde, P. R. S., J. Grazia, M. de S. Mendonça, Jr., C. F. Schwertner, E. J. Ely, and É. N. Garcia. 2010. Pentatomidade (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of the Pampa biome: Serra do Sudeste and Parque de Espinilho da Barra do Quaraí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Biota Neotropica 10(3): 83-88.

Ferrari, A., A. Paladini, C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2010. Endemism analysis of Neotropical Pentatomidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Iheringia (Zool.) 100(4): 449-462.

Ferrari, A., C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2010. Review, cladistic analysis and biogeography of Nezara Amyot & Serville (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Zootaxa 2424: 1-41.

Requena, G. S., T. M. Nazareth, C. F. Schwertner, and G. Machado. 2010. First cases of exclusive paternal care in stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Zoologia 27(6): 1018-1021.

Bernardes, J. L., C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2011. Review of Thoreyella Spinola with the description of two new species from Brazil (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 55(3): 299-312.

Grazia, J. and C. F. Schwertner. 2011. Checklist dos percevejos-do-mato (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomoidea) do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Biota Neotropica 11(1a): 1-12.

Guerra, T. J., F. Camarota, F. S. Castro, C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2011. Trophobiosis between ants and Eurystethus microlobatus Ruckes 1966 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) a cryptic, gregarious and subsocial stinkbug. Journal of Natural History 45(17-18): 1101-1117.

Genevcius, B. C., J. Grazia, and C. F. Schwertner. 2012. Cladistic analysis and revision of the obstinata group, genus Chinavia Orian (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Zootaxa 3434: 1-30.

Schwertner, C. F. and J. Grazia. 2012. Review of the neotropical genus Aleixus McDonald (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Procleticini), with description of a new species and cladistic analysis of the tribe Procleticini. Entomologica Americana 118(1-4): 252-262.

Fürstenau, B. B. R. J., C. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2013. Comparative morphology of immature stages of four species of Chinavia (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae), with a key to the species of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. ZooKeys 319: 59-82.

Greve, C., D. F. Schwertner, and J. Grazia. 2013. Cladistic analysis and synopsis of Chloropepla Stål (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with the description of three new species. Insect Systematics & Evolution 44: 1-43.

Genevcius, B. C. and C. F. Schwertner. 2014. Review and phylogeny of the geniculata group, genus Chinavia (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), with notes on biogeography and morphological evolution. Zootaxa 3847(1): 33-56.

Grazia, J., V. C. Matesco, and C. F. Schwertner. 2015. Thyreocoridae. Pp. 417-420, in: Roig-Juñent, L. E. Claps, and J. J. Morrone (eds.), Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos, vol. 3.

Grazia, J. and C. F. Schwertner. 2015. Acanthosomatidae. Pp. 399-402, in: Roig-Juñent, L. E. Claps, and J. J. Morrone (eds.), Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos, vol. 3.

Grazia, J., A. R. Panizzi, C. Greve, C. F. Schwertner, L. A. Campos, T. de A. Garbelotto, and J. A. M. Fernandes. 2015. Stink bugs (Pentatomidae). Pp. 681-756, in: Panizzi, A. R. and J. Grazia (eds.), True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics. Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, New York, London, 901 pp.

Schwertner, C. F. and J. Grazia. 2015. Dinidoridae, Megarididae e Tessaratomidae. Pp. 403-407, in: Roig-Juñent, L. E. Claps, and J. J. Morrone (eds.), Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos, vol. 3.

Schwertner, C. F. and J. Grazia. 2015. Less diverse pentatomoid families (Acanthosomatidae, Canopidae, Dinidoridae, Megarididae, Phloeidae, and Tessaratomidae). Pp. 821-862, in: Panizzi, A. R. and J. Grazia (eds.), True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics. Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, New York, London, 901 pp.

Schwertner, C. F. and C. Nardi. 2015. Burrower bugs (Cydnidae). Pp. 639-680, in: Panizzi, A. R. and J. Grazia (eds.), True Bugs (Heteroptera) of the Neotropics. Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg, New York, London, 901 pp.

Genevcius, B. C., R. Carrenho, and C. F. Schwertner. 2016. Dinidor mactabilis (Perty, 1833): first record of Dinidoridae (Hemiptera: Pentatomoidea) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Check List 12(3)(1900): 1-4.

Avendaño, J. M., J. Grazia, and C. F. Schwertner. 2017. Cydninae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Cydnidae) in Brazil: updated checklist, new records, and description of Tominotus ondulatus sp. nov. Zootaxa 4329(5): 401-435.

Genevcius, B. C., D. S. Caetano, and C. F. Schwertner. 2017. Rapid differentiation and asynchronous coevolution of male and female genitalia in stink bugs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 461-473.

Genevcius, B. C. and C. F. Schwertner. 2017. Strong functional integration among multiple parts of the complex male and female genitalia of stink bugs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 20: 1-13.

Grazia, J., C. F. Schwertner, and Coscarón, M. del C. 2017. Family Acanthosomatidae Signoret. Pp. 10-329, in: Coscarón, M. del C. (ed.), A catalogue of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) or true bugs of Argentina. Zootaxa 4295: 1-432.

Grazia, J., C. F. Schwertner, and Coscarón, M. del C. 2017. Family Dinidoridae Signoret. Pp. 88-89, in: Coscarón, M. del C. (ed.), A catalogue of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) or true bugs of Argentina. Zootaxa 4295: 1-432.

Grazia, J., C. F. Schwertner, and Coscarón, M. del C. 2017. Family Megarididae McAtee and Malloch. Pp. 114-115, in: Coscarón, M. del C. (ed.), A catalogue of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) or true bugs of Argentina. Zootaxa 4295: 1-432.

Grazia, J., C. F. Schwertner, and Coscarón, M. del C. 2017. Family Pentatomidae Leach. Pp. 207-247, in: Coscarón, M. del C. (ed.), A catalogue of the Heteroptera (Hemiptera) or true bugs of Argentina. Zootaxa 4295: 1-432.

Avendaño, J. M., K. R. Barão, J. Grazia, and C. F. Schwertner. 2018. Synonymy of two important crop pests of burrower bugs, Cyrtomenus mirabilis and C. bergi (Hemiptera: Cydnidae), based in a multi-source approach. Zootaxa 4504(4): 489-500.

Carrenho, R., B. C. Genevcius, D. A. Rider, and C. F. Schwertner. 2018. First record of four species of stink bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in the Atlantic Forest of São Paulo State, Brazil. Entomological News 128(1): 53-60.

Esquivel, J. F., D. L. Musolin, W. A. Jones, W. Rabitsch, J. K. Greene, M. D. Toews, C. F. Schwertner, J. Grazia, and R. M. McPherson. 2018. Nezara viridula (L.). Pp. 351-423, in: McPherson, J. E. (ed.), Invasive Stink Bugs and Related Species (Pentatomoidea): Biology, Higher Systematics, Semiochemistry, and Management. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York, 819 pp.

Rider, D. A., C. F. Schwertner, J. Vilímová, D. Rédei, P. Kment, and D. B. Thomas. 2018. Higher Systematics of the Pentatomoidea. Pp. 25-201, in: McPherson, J. E. (ed.), Invasive Stink Bugs and Related Species (Pentatomoidea): Biology, Higher Systematics, Semiochemistry, and Management. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, London, New York, 819 pp.

Hickmann, F., T. Moraes, F. M. Bianchi, A. S. Corrêa, and C. F. Schwertner. 2019. Integrating data to redescribe Euschistus taurulus Berg (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Zootaxa 4688(1): 119-134.

Carrenho, R., H. D. D. Rodrigues, A. C. de Lima, and C. F. Schwertner. 2020. Type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) housed in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 60(17): 1-16.

Brugnera, R., Y. Lima, J. Grazia, and C. F. Schwertner. 2021. Occurrence of the yellow-spotted stink bug Erthesina fullo (Thunberg) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Brazil, a polyphagous species from Asia. Neotropical Entomology [early online version]

Genevcius, B. C., C. Greve, S. Koehler, R. B. Simmons, D. A. Rider, J. Grazia, and C. F. Schwertner. 2021. Phylogeny of the stink bug tribe Chlorocorini (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae) based on DNA and morphological data: the evolution of key phenotypic traits. Systematic Entomology 46: 327-338.

Hickmann, F., E. G. Cordeiro, P. L. Soares, M. S. L. Aurélio, C. F. Schwertner, and A. S. Corrêa. 2021. Reproductive patterns drive the gene flow and spatial dispersal of Euschistus heros (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Journal of Economic Entomology [early online version; pdf]

López, G. E. L., R. Carrenho, and C. F. Schwertner. 2021. Description of a new species of Dinidor Latreille (Hemiptera: Dinidoridae) from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, and new records of D. saucius Stål. Zootaxa 4958(1): 654-662.

Roca-Cusachs, M., C. F. Schwertner, J. Kim, J. Eger, J. Grazia, and S. Jung. 2021. Opening Pandora’s box: molecular phylogeny of the stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) reveals great incongruences in the current classifiation. Systematic Entomology 2021(12514): 16 pp.

Castro-Huertas, V., J. Grazia, D. Forero, F. Fernandez, and C. F. Schwertner. 2022. Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species. Zootaxa 5097(1): 1-88.

López, G. E. L., R. Carrenho, and C. F. Schwertner. 2023. Over 170 years later: Redescription of the genus Glyphuchus Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Discocephalinae), with the first description of the male. Zootaxa 5263(3): 401-410.

López, G. E. L. and C. F. Schwertner. 2023. Synopsis of the remarkable family Phloeidae (Hemiptera: Pentatomoidea): Species identification, chromatic polymorphism and updated distribution. Journal of Natural History 57(45-48): 2083-2113.

Moraes, T., L. M. A. Santos, C. F. Schwertner, and A. S. Corrêa. 2023. Molecular insights on the historical dispersion of Piezodorus guildinii (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in Brazil. Journal of Economic Entomology 116(6): 2173-2183.

Grazia, J., D. M. Takiya, V. R. dos S. Wolff, C. F. Schwertner, G. Mejdalani, R. R. Cavichioli, A. L. B. G. Peronti, D. L. de Queiroz, D. Burckhardt, J. A. M. Fernandes, F. F. F. Moreira, H. R. Gil-Santana, P. S. F. Ferreira, R. Carrenho, R. Brugnera, and M. Guidoti. 2024. Hemiptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp. 368-456, in: Rafael, J. A., G. A. R. Melo, C. J. B. Carvalho, S. Casari, and R. Constantino (eds.), Insetos do Brasil: Diversidade e Taxonomia. 2nd edition. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, 880 pp.

 

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